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Archive for April, 2011
Awakening
Tuesday, April 5th, 2011The narratives we spin are by and large projections of our desires into the space we inhabit, and more often than not are meant to attract the objects of our heart’s content and protect us from pain.
Awakening
Monday, April 4th, 2011Deeply embedded in our hearts is desire– it is rooted in our incessant patterns for attachment and aversion.
Practice- “Clear Mind” Game for Children
Monday, April 4th, 2011Abstracted from “Mindfulness for Children”~ Susan Kasier Greenland Take a clear glass bottle with a cap or lid. Fill it with water. Put it on a table, and ask your child or children to look through and see what’s on the other side. They’ll probably see you or whatever’s sitting on the tabletop. Now, pour […]
Awakening
Sunday, April 3rd, 2011It is the nature of desire- the tyranny of desire– that causes us suffering . Our desires are always changing- often conflicting- and changes in the environment can never keep pace with our perpetually wanting minds.
Awakening
Saturday, April 2nd, 2011It’s all a matter of how we look at it… and where we are looking from makes a big difference to what we see.
Awakening
Friday, April 1st, 2011As we come to better understand our consciousness, we cannot help but become better people in the process.
Practice- Pausing Our “Habitualness” of Mind
Friday, April 1st, 2011[audio:MM-Pausing-Our-Habitualness-Audio.mp3] Don’t underestimate the strength of the habitual mind- the discursive mind- the busy, worried, caught up in “me”, “myself”, and “I” mind. The habitual mind and its “reactionary force” knows us better than we know ourselves- it knows how we are- how addictive we are- and how fearful and insecure we can be. It […]